Do you run RH's firewall? I did and the default iptables seems to
interfere with our NIS server. (I can't seem to find what port NIS
normally works on, or I'd have added the rule already.)

Maybe try disabling iptables and see if NIS starts up okay then...

Ben

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 16:06, Syed Ali wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On RedHat 8.0, NIS clients do not bind to the NIS server when the system boots.
> The NIS server is running Solaris 7.
>
> I have to log in as root on the RH 8.0 clients and run /etc/init.d/ypbind start in order to get the binding to work.
> When the system is booting, the "Listening for a NIS server…." fails.
>
> My /etc/yp.conf file has:
>
> Domain mynisdomain server 1.1.1.1
>
>
> Thank you....
>
>
> Thank you...
>
>

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